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August Schleicher
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August Schleicher was a German linguist, journalist, pedagogue, and university teacher. He was born in Meiningen in 1821 and died in Jena in 1868 from tuberculosis. He held citizenship in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen and was educated at the University of Bonn and Gymnasium Casimirianum Coburg. His teachers included Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker.
Schleicher worked as a university teacher at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Charles University. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Volney Prize. His works include *Laut- Und Formenlere Der Polabischen Sprache*, *Die Formenlehre der Kirchenslawischen Sprache*, and *Compendio Di Grammatica Comparativa Dello Antico Indiano, Greco Ed Italico*. He is described in sources such as the *Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie* and the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*.
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- Works
- 20
Top works
- Laut- Und Formenlere [!] Der Polabischen Sprache
- Die Formenlehre der Kirchenslawischen Sprache, Erklärend und Vergleichend Dargestellt
- Die Wurzel AK in Indogermanischen
- Compendio Di Grammatica Comparativa Dello Antico Indiano, Greco Ed Italico
- Sprachen Europas in Systematischer Übersicht
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1821-02-19 ) 19 February 1821, Meiningen , Saxe-Meiningen , German Confederation
- Died
- 6 December 1868 (1868-12-06) (aged 47), Jena , Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , North German Confederation
- Known for
- Contributions to Indo-European studies Schleicher's fable
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- August
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen
- Place of birth
- Meiningen
- Place of death
- Jena
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Gymnasium Casimirianum Coburg
- Employer
- Charles University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Award
- Volney Prize
- Doctoral advisor
- Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer
- Student of
- Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
- Field of work
- linguistics
- Image
- August Schleicher.jpg
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- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- date of birth
- 1821-02-19
- date of death
- 1868-12-07
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- Commons category
- August Schleicher
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- Germans
- name in native language
- August Schleicher
- student
- Johannes Schmidt
- interested in
- linguistics
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Works in European collections
11 objects attributed to August Schleicher, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
August Schleicher ( German: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈʃlaɪçɐ]; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. To show how Indo-European might have looked, he created a short tale, Schleicher's fable, to exemplify the reconstructed vocabulary and aspects of Indo-European society inferred from it.
Life
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